Assigning exposure duration to single prescriptions by use of the waiting time distribution

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 803-809

  Pottegård, Anton ^a   Hallas, Jesper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Drug prescriptions; Drug utilization; Methods; Pharmacoepidemiology; Registries

Indexed keywords

BENDROFLUMETHIAZIDE; LEVOTHYROXINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DRUG UTILIZATION; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION; WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTION;

DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION; METHODS; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; REGISTRIES;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENMARK; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HUMANS; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880744638     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.3459     Document Type: Article

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